Whilst reading the ripples that resulted from our recent discussion of
asynchonous invocation and parallelism in vanilla OCaml, someone mentioned
the idea of "fork-friendly" garbage collectors.
I believe this refers to the coalescing of GC tags into contiguous memory. If
so, that means that OCaml's current GC is not fork-friendly because it
scatters tags everywhere.
Is that correct?
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Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd.
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